rev up your engine I see mistakes that people have made over the last 52 years
I've been fixing cars so well I'll tell you the big ones so you don't have to
make them yourself learn where the engine oil is and how to check it so
that's near the full line when it's cold every once in a while check the coolant
to make sure it's full coolant if it's an older car learn where the
power steering reservoir is hiding back here but if you have a more modern car
you have to worry about that they got electronic power steering but learn what
you have a little bit of information about your car I know I saw where the
battery is these old ones simple they're right here
learn what just positive and which is negative so if you do have to jumpstart
it you'll do it correctly so I'm cars realized batteries in the trunk under
the seat or someplace look for that and if they are hidden a lot of times under
the hood they'll have little markers that say jumpstart your car here and
they'll say positive cable goes here and negative cable goes there so learn where
that is if you got one of those cars with the hidden battery so instead of
taking a car apart to jumpstart it you can do it onto the hood just learn where
those parts are for your car and of course we where the brake fluid is in
this case it's right here you can see through it so it's off at the top you
know it's perfectly fine doesn't need any most kind of these days have this
gimmick a light comes on it says service car soon well of those lights just come
on every 15,000 miles they mean absolutely nothing so you can research
it on yours and you can also find out using your phone how to set them up if
you've been changing your oil regularly most times those lights don't mean
anything so you can learn which buttons you push to turn the stupid warning off
when it comes out don't freak out if your car is running perfectly fine
and some light comes on it says maintenance do service required cuz
those are just gambits they put it in the car when they build them to make
money off of unsuspecting people but in that respect learn what all the
lights in your car mean for instance your battery light comes on it doesn't
mean your battery's bad that means that the alternator isn't charging the
battery you need to get that fixed relatively soon or you will run out
electricity watch the temperature gauge on the dash most cars run about in the
middle stays in the middle fine but you're driving on it keeps going up and
out towards the edge pull over at the nearest place you can't if it gets near
that H you don't want to blow your engine because it's got a problem
anything from low on coolant leaking a water pump lots of things can do it but
if it starts going closer to the H get off the road and find out what's wrong
don't keep driving it because once it gets to the H the coolant starts boiling
and when boiling coolant is inside your system it's no longer dissipating an
extra heat from the engine and you'll blow a head gasket the gas gauge just
don't let it get all the way to empty cuz if it does actually get empty car
won't start you try starting it while you're trying to start it gives you a
pump which in most cars is in the gas tank starts to suck air can burn out a
fuel pump one of those assemblies could cost over $800 to replace on some cars
if it's real low on gas put some more gas in don't keep driving until it dies
because if it does die and you try to start it over and over again you can
burn out that expensive fuel pump look we don't live in a magic world cars run
on gasoline and if you run out the cars you're gonna run anymore so always keep
a quarter of a tank or more in it so you only have to worry about running out and
causing catastrophic damage to the pump when all you have to do is put five
bucks of gas in the tank another that's big mistake new drivers make it's not
checking the tire pressure every once in a while you just unscrew a little cap
and stick it on that's it in this case I'm a bad boy it's only got
20 pounds it should have thirty-two and when you do wear there it's 45 degrees
outside as it gets colder playing physics the pressure will go down it
gets hotter pressure goes up so we know whether changes you want to check your
tires if you don't have pressure the tires are softer you can easily get
nails in and that tires are wear on the outside because there's not enough
pressure and on the outsides of wear more conversely if you put way too much
pressure then the middle bulges out the middle of the tire wears out faster
you're riding on air then better robber most of its air so you want to make sure
the air pressure is right I'll handle batter they're safer just check them
every once in a while don't get caught stranded somewhere
because you don't have a simple thing that's inside the trunk waiting for you
to use now you don't want a cat in your trunk they'd make a lot of noise but you
also don't need all the crap I have because I've been doing car repairs for
decades a lot of that stuff I just inherit and throw it in but the first
thing is either have a set of jumper cables you want good thick jumper cables
with heavy-duty clamps so they work and you want a long enough so you can reach
from car to car if it's in a weird space realize today a lot of people you're not
gonna let you use their car to jumpstart your car because they know modern
electricity and cars with all the computers sometimes that can damage
something even better than having good jumper cables is a jumper battery itself
all you have to do is plug them into the device and there's one big advantage of
these jumpers until you turn it on there's no power so you could hook it up
directly to your battery positive to positive get it tight negative to
negative there's no spark because the powers are turned on yeah so if you have
jumper cables you cannot positive positive negative negative the last
connection he'll often get a spark theoretically that can cause an
explosion it's very rare hardly ever happens
but with this that's an impossibility once you have connected you push the
button to turn it on and then there's no spark cuz the switches inside here you
don't need another person with another car you just saw that in your trunk and
where you go and these things are also smart you have to be smart but positive
or positive negative to negative but if you hook this thing up backwards
before you do anything this will tell you it's hooked up backwards man you got
switching the other way you're not going to destroy a very expensive computer
system jump-starting it backwards it will warn you if you can't beat it for a
new driver so you don't get stranded somewhere or you don't destroy your
system jump-starting it wrong now another thing should be caught without
is an air pump pump up your tires just to get low there's a million of them out
there but I like this via air for two reasons all steel here they last forever
and this particular one has clamps there's something to plug into the
cigarette sometimes the cigarette lighters blow
the fuse sometimes they don't work right this is foolproof just took our pods in
the positive negative the negative that's it
plus there's an accurate built-in gauge soft you need 32 pounds you do it till
it goes to 32 pounds one thing is all you need if you're low on air a lot of
times you can fill them up they can go weeks before they lose five or six
pounds again they got a little nail or something em you can fill it up drive
away safely I've had that one for a decade it's made out steel like I said
it could last virtually as long as you're gonna last you get the cigarette
lighter one that's cheap plastic one it came from Harbor Freight tool it was
like eight dollars or something say it's not gonna hold up like the other one
engage isn't as accurate I mean for a few bucks more get a good one mistake
that many new car buyers make is buying the wrong car you want to make sure you
buy the right car in the first place especially if you're buying a used car
all if you're buying the wrong new car could be just as much ass and you're
throwing a bunch of money way but most first-time drivers don't buy a new car
they use guys if you're buying a used car is your first car find a mechanic
like me to check it out because over the years it may sound ridiculous but I have
had scores of customers they buy a used car then later they bring it to me and
say Scotty I just bought this car could you check it out for me
and I just respond you know you're putting the cart in front of the horse
you have it checked up before you buy not after don't do like one of my
customers did years ago they set it up so solid on the car was coming over here
for me to check it out so they were over here and here comes this nice Toyota it
was a white Toyota so I opened hood my customer is up to me and says don't
bother I'll pay it for your time but don't bother I hate white cars now the
last biggest mistake new drivers make it's gigantic one so I saved it for last
yes and do with guys like me find an honest mechanic before your car has a
problem today everybody's out to make money if you've never met someone your
car breaks down on the road and you get it towed somewhere they don't know you
are you know they are that spells trouble put it in your phone as a
contact even I have a special number in here and that's my tow truck drivers
number my wife's car broke down I had a towed over here years and year
ago somebody showed me a bad part that broke about a month later but in any
kind of emergency a wreck something bad happens you want to have a place that
you trust that you can take your car to cuz in the real world people are always
trying to pull fast ones I remember when I was a kid we are driving to Albany to
look at the State University of New York at Albany we stopped on a New York
Thruway to get gas those days they pump the gas the kid comes to my father and
says hey you need an air filter and you need an oil filter and oil change to God
didn't know my father ran a gas station himself my father just said hey Jack we
just changed the filter in the oil in the air filter before we started on this
trip to Albany forget it you want to find an honest mechanic before he need
one not when you need one, so if you never want to miss another one
of my new car repair videos, remember to ring that Bell